Fun projects with Foil and a pictorial

Hello everyone,

         Riswana here with you today. There is a new challenge running over on our blog this month - "Bling a ding with a stamping twist". Check out the details Here. I have some inspiration projects lined up for you using a wonderful product, iCraft therm-o-web DECO FOIL. Foiling is so much fun. There are many ways to add foil to your projects. Though a laminating machine works best, you can still pull up foiling with deco foil glue.!

This is gonna be a lengthyyy and picture heavy post, so gear up folks ;)

Card 1:

Here's a simple card.. I stamped the big bold sentiment from Mudra's Purely Sentiments - Brushed stampset and applied deco foil glue over it. (This glue dries very slowly. you need to give it a few seconds for it to become tacky,) Then I applied the foil over it, pressed really well and peeled off gently.

Repeated the same with the image from Fancy Flourishes Stampset. 

It's better to stamp with ink color similar to the foil so that minor glitches are not obvious.! Also big and bold images are the best to begin with.. Am sorry for the not so good photograph.. I tried to capture the gorgeous shimmer as much as possible... But i still feel it's better in real life,,

Card 2:

Here I've used finer strokes with the glue pen and the result was awesome.. Sentiment is formed using individual alphabets from Mudra's Brushed alphas stampset.

Card 3:

You can create backgrounds with foil. I went for a simple polka dot pattern here. This card is made with the gorgeous new release from Papericious - Incredible India.. The designs are stunning and so Desi.!

Mixed media tag:

This tag is almost one layered.! Yet it has lots of textures and depth by layering with stamps.. I am sharing a step-by-step pictorial of how I made this tag:

Spritz some water on a Manila tag from Ranger. Add some peeled paint Distress paint to craft sheet, spritz some water and swipe the tag over it, wet on wet. Repeat the process until desired look is obtained.

Add spray mists through a stencil randomly to achieve some texture..

Start adding layers with stamps. Alternate between permanent and water soluble inks and also do generation stamping to add more interest.

Add more colors and textures with stamps

Add white splatters with diluted white acrylic paint..

Swipe a glue stick randomly along the edges and apply foil over it.

Add more foil, colors and stamped textures. I heat embossed the lamp post from Bo Bunny stampset with Ranger super fine Black EP.

Add punched out leaves & ticket for embellishing. Add the same colors used on the tag to a lace & thread it through the hole. Finally add some highlights with a white gel pen and add a grungy border around with white gesso and a palette knife.

Hope you liked my projects and found the tutorial helpful. There is an awesome lot of new stamps stocked at the Lulupu store right now and of course a wide range of colors in thermoweb Deco foil.!! Grab yours soon and get started with this beautiful technique.!!

Don't forget to link your creations based on this month's theme here.

Supplies used:

Pink Melon Deco Foil Transfer Sheets

Green Deco Foil Transfer Sheets

Deco Foil Adhesive Pen

Mudra - Brushed alphas stampset

Mudra - Fancy Flourush Stampset

Mudra - Purely Sentiments Brushed Stampset

Papericious - Incredible India Paper pad

C ya soon. 

Create. Have fun.

Rhiz.

September mood board challenge winners

Hi everyone! Sindhura here. I'm here to reveal the winners of our September challenge. There are not many entries this time but these caught our eye as soon as we saw them. Here we go!

Top three in no particular order.

 Priya Mishra

We love those flowers and hearts! My personal favorite is the striped patterned paper. :)

Miti Bhavsar

We love how Miti incorporatrd the colours from the mood board in her layout.  Love all the floral images and the pool coloured lace!

Shylashree

Shylaashree's addition of the geart doily and the flowers is great!

Now the winner of our challenge is....

Anushree

Absolutely LOVE how she kept her layout simple yet interesting! Love the cluster of flowers to the right! Those stripes add so much interest to the layout. 

Congratulations, everyone! Anushree, please write to hello@lulupu.com to claim your prize.

Don't forget to play in our current challenge. Click HERE for all the details.

That is all for today, friends!

Sindhura.

Challenge #66- Bling a ding with a stamping twist!

Hi everyone!

Welcome to a new challenge for the month of October!

Challenge rules-
1. Must do stamping on the project (Stamping of sentiment alone doesn't count.)
2. Add bling/ sparkle/ shimmer
For general rules and guidelines, click HERE

Here is what I made

I used Waffle Flower's Leafy stamp set and papers from Fancy Pants Millie and June pack.

As soon as I saw the stamp set from my DT kit, I knew the stamps when stamped randomly together would make a great background. I stamped the images randomly in different colours to make my own patterned paper. After some die cutting  for added interest, I layered the panel with stamping with a vellum circular die cut to make the sentiment stand out from the busy background. Added some sequins and coated all the images with a layer of Wink of Stella clear shimmer pen.

Supplies used from the store
Fancy Pants Millie and June pack
Waffle Flower Leafy stamp set
Hero Arts shadow inks

I hope you like my card and also will play along and try different stamping techniques. :)

Love
Sindhura

An InLinkz Link-up

Beautiful day- cardmaking video

Hello everyone!

Today I have a simple card and a video to share. Here is the card-  

Here is how I made it...

I wanted to use a single stamp for my card that is neither too small not too large. So, this stamp set called 'leafy' from Mudra seemed perfect for me.

I stamped the leaf in the lightest colour of green ink that I have. Then, stamped with a darker shade exactly on the previously stamped image after dabbing off some of the ink from the stamp. Then repeated the step with darkest shade. Once that was done, I inked up the same stamp with versamark and stamped it on previously stamped image and heat set with glitter embossing powder. 

I repeated the process for five leaves. Then sponged black soot distress ink. The leaves resist the ink as they are heat embossed.

Here is the link to Jennifer McGuire's video from which I got inspired...

I also made a video showing the entire process in the video. You can watch the video here or on YouTube HERE.



List of supplies used from Lulupu store-
Mudra 2x3 mini stamp set- Leafy
Echo Park 6x6 inch paper pad- Party time

EP enamel dots- Party time

Smile : Moodboard inspied Layout

Hello everyone,

       Riswana here with you today. Did you check out the Current challenge running our blog? We have an awesome moodboard to inspire you for creating a layout.. 

Here's my take on the moodboard. This is the first ever layout I've created.!!!

I used so many elements from the mood board. I took the soft blue and pink colors from the pic for the colour scheme.. Wooden plank background with stripes & also crumpled paper effect..

Also included elements from the moodboard like roses, feathers, Love, Pop of red & a scripty sentiment.. The brushed alphas stampset is a must have.. you can create your own sentiment in a beautiful font...

Some more shots..

Hope you liked this debut layout attempt of mine. I did take longer than usual to figure out the elements,placements etc.. But I had so much fun all the same.!!

There's still time to participate in the challenge & get a chance to win fab prizes.!! Don't forget to link your creations Here.

Supplies used:

MAMBI Pocket Pages - Friendship themed cards

Papericious - Wooden collection Paper pad
Papericious: Just U adhesive buttons
Mudra Brushed alphas stampset

C ya all very soon.
Create. Have fun.
Rhiz.

September GD- Sathyakala

Hi everyone! Sindhura here.  Our GD this month is Sathya and she shares a gorgeous layout and step by step instructions about how she made it. It isn't the first time she is guest designing for us... I love all the mixed media projecrs she creates!

Over to her...

Hi Friends!

Its me SathyaKala, from Paperie Expressions. Am SO happy here today to be the Guest Designer at Lulupu. Did you see this month's Awesome moodboard, you are sure to blown away by the cute elements in it. Am SO in love with the elements, colors and the textures.

Have been doing Mixed media Canvases from last year and this Mixed media try today on a Layout is my ever first attempt. Am happy about the way, the very many elements fallen in place to compile this LO.

My take on Moodboard Inspiration :)

Let's get started with the process:

• Took a 12x12 Prima pp from Tales of You and Me collection. One of my fave collection. It as such calls for some awesome Love themed projects!!! 

• I usually take a print out of the Moodboard inpsiration, just to get started as phone screen pics may not give me exact color to follow.  Here, i have used a 12x12 thick white cardstock for backing for my LO. Glued it with Tombow monoliquid glue and followed by that, is all the stenciling and sprays.

• Have applied white Gesso centrally on the Patterned paper using Spatula, just to have a texturous base. You can use brush, foam anything as you wish. Gesso gives a tooth for the mists/sprays and it prevents them from soaking in the paper.
• Then done stenciling in portions in and around the gessoed area using Prima Poppies stencil using Prima Modelling paste Opaque.
• Once its dry, Started the series of mists one after the other after each layer is dried. Lindy's stamp gang sprays - Cocklebells Coral, Kissing KenicKie Coral, Glory of the Seas Gold are used.

• Simple stamping is done around the texturous base, using Prima Brick stamp and Texture Stamp using Black archival ink.

• Roughly arranged the elements just to check where it suits. My focal element is made using a White-Gold foil pp, Black-Gold foil pp, and frame diecut. All are mounted one on top of each other using foam adhesive on 2 doilies.
• Misted cheesecloth is tucked randomly under the focal element.
• Beige Crocheted Lace is ruffled and takes a corner position near the Focal element and above and around all other embellies placed.

• Prima Floral vine, Prima Kraft Leaves, Prima Natural Hemp Twine, Prima Say it in crystals, Prima Resin Icons - LOVE and Memories, Prima Mini artstones, Prima Mulberry Mica flakes were used here. 
• Roses, Mini roses and clay pollens are added for bit interest in the floral vine.
• Other than this, clock metal embellishment, White heat embossed florishes, clear droplets are used as accents here. 
• Timholtz chitchat word stickers - Kraft color is chosen and they are mounted using foam adhesive around the Focal elements. 
• Feathers from Mudra Dream catcher set. are white and gold heat embossed are added.
• As a final touch, Heidi Swapp Black velvet splatters around the floral element.

Few closeup shots as Collage for you :)

This wraps up my post. Hope you liked my inspiration for this month awesome Moodboard. 

Thank You SO much, Karuna Chauhan and entire Lulupu team for this lovely opportunity. 

Happy Crafting!

Cheers,

Sathya.

Now, isn't that a very pretty layout?! Love it totally!Thanks for sharing, Sathya!

See you soon again,
Bye!

Acrylic Mini Album with tutorial

Hello.

Chirali here with a brand new post on mini album. It is completely different kind of mini album, an Acrylic Mini Album. As the name says, the base is made of an acrylic. It was super fun making this one. You will definitely love to try this.

Here it is:

So let's start with it.

I got an acrylic sheet  from local stationary which is huge in size but a good thing is it can be cut with cutter, a little bit harder you need to be than normal. I cut them in 4 pieces measuring 4.5"x4" inches and 2 pieces in 4.5"x3", made 3 holes on each (2 holes in 4.5"x3" piece) at same distance for binding with rings. I found only this binding preferable for acrylic sheet as it is not bendable easily.

Now rounding of the corners was a tough task for me. I thought envelop punch board will do but it just left a small mark with a deep cut in the middle.

So I cut the corners in this shape with scissors, of course not with that level finishing. But to smoothen the corners, I used sand paper and it's almost done. Here is the final base:

Note that this sheet comes with plastic coating on both the sides so before removing them, make sure you are done with everything on the base otherwise it will leave you ending up with scratches on the sheet and it won't be that transparent.

Now, it's time to prepare pages. One can not go with the flow of normal album in this case because working on acrylic directly may result in scratch or glue on acrylic. So I prepared pages first and then adhered them. 

Again, the best thing about this album is the best use of double sided patterned papers. You need to stick them on one side only. I always feel waste of one side so a treat for me. ;)

And the last thing which made me the happiest was you can emboss on this and it looks so damn beautiful on both the sides.

So here are some more photos of album with some photos of inside pages and the video is there for detailed pages with how I did it because it would be easier to understand.

And here is detailed video of it:

I hope you enjoyed the whole post.

Our ongoing challenge is Moodboard Layout. Do enter with your lovely creations and get a chance to win goodies.

Thanks,

Chirali. :)

Supplies used:

1. Glossy Accents

2. VersaMark Ink for embossing

3. Green Sequins

4. Vintagy Flourish Mudra Stamp